Newsweek articles from July 2003

Newsweek archives from July 2003

Snap Judgement: Our critics steer you straight.(television and movie reviews)(Movie Review)(Television Program Review)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon and David Ansen TELEVISION Dead Like Me Fridays at 10 p.m. ET, Showtime. The cable network's latest exercise in HBO envy raises at least one compelling question: is it possible to take a show seriously...

Summer Windfall.(uses for child-tax rebate checks)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern Have fun or be good? Parents will have to make that decision when the $400-per-child tax rebates start arriving later in July. Some options for spending the windfall: Fun. Ross Levin, an Edina, Minn., financial...

The Levitating Economy: Signs of growth suggest Bush's policies may be paying off. But is it all an illusion?(Pres. George W. Bush)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Allan Sloan Feeling a little better about the economy lately? It's easy to see why. Stocks are up $2 trillion--23 percent--since March, according to Wilshire Associates. The recent tax cut means larger paychecks. Interest rates are...

Mail Call.(Correction Notice)
July 7, 2003... Correction In our June 23 Perspectives page, we misspelled the last name of New York teenager Daniel Newman. NEWSWEEK regrets the error.

Conventional Wisdom: SPECIAL BENCH WARMERS EDITION.(current events)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 7, 2003... SPECIAL BENCH WARMERS EDITION As the Supreme Court session ended with big decisions, the continuing story was more losses in nonpacified Iraq. Is Saddam laughing somewhere? C W Bush + Medicare/drugs bill is harder to...

Mail Call: In Steady Pursuit of the Enemies Among Us.(Letter to the Editor)
July 7, 2003... Many readers found our June 23 cover story, "Al Qaeda in America," disturbing, but some were not surprised by revelations that the terrorist group may be operating in our own backyard. "Al Qaeda in America? I never thought otherwise," one...

Dawnism in California: Ataturk, creating modern Turkey, said, 'Government for the people--despite the people.' Californians need an Ataturk.(efforts to recall Gov. Gray Davis)(Column)
July 7, 2003... Byline: George F. Will Armies on the march are no match for a terrible idea whose time has come, and in California the terrible idea is an army on the march--an army of disgruntled voters exercising their ridiculous right to utter a...

Hunting Saddam: Exclusive: Behind the scenes of the U.S. military's most massive search yet for 'Targets One, Two and Three'--the elusive Iraqi dictator and his sons, Uday and Qusay.
July 7, 2003... Byline: Scott Johnson The first report was from a U.S. Army troop, call sign Bandit, at a checkpoint on Highway 12, just east of the Syrian border. The soldiers were at maximum alert. Word had come down less than an hour earlier that...

The Jihad Soccer Club: They were the best soccer club in Hebron. Then the players began dying--first in the intifada, then in a wave of suicide missions against Israelis. The story of a band of friends who became a cell of fanatics.
July 7, 2003... Byline: Joshua Hammer The Jihad mosque in Hebron is an easy place to miss. Located on the top two floors of a three-story stone building containing a minimarket and a car-repair shop, it draws attention only by the green globe and green...

Needed: An Army Of Builders.(direction of military policy and foreign affairs)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Charles Taylor, the indicted war criminal who runs Liberia, was glad that George W. Bush was in the White House. "We've listened to statements made by President Bush," he explained to a NEWSWEEK reporter in 2001,...

The Editor's Desk.(gay rights)(Editorial)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker When the Supreme Court handed down its ruling on the rights of gays to sexual privacy, it wasn't a hard call to put the story on the cover. NEWSWEEK has covered the gay-rights movement for more than 30 years, and this...

Return to Circuit City: Arnold the friendly cyborg is at your service in 'T3'.(Arnold Schwarzenegger; 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines')(Movie Review)
July 7, 2003... Byline: David Ansen The machines don't give up easy. Once a decade, they send a cyborg from the future back in time to kill John Connor. They first tried, and failed, in 1984 in "The Terminator," when Connor was just a fetus in his...

Back From Iraq and Prouder Than Ever: I lost my father and my husband to war, but a visit with our soldiers proved their spirits still live on.
July 7, 2003... Byline: Christy Ferer I was born a daughter of war. My dad, Richard Ferer, fought in World War II. I am also a widow of war: my husband, Neil Levin, went to work on September 11 and never came back. But until I went to Iraq two weeks ago...

Center Court: She helped America seek a middle ground on the thorny subject of race. Sandra Day O'Connor's brand of justice.
July 7, 2003... Byline: Evan Thomas and Stuart Taylor Jr. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor got her job through affirmative action. It was obvious to officials in the Reagan Justice Department, as they searched for a Supreme Court justice in the summer of 1981,...

The War Over Gay Marriage: In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court affirms gay privacy and opens the way to a revolution in family life.
July 7, 2003... Byline: This story was reported by T. Trent Gegax, Debra Rosenberg, Pat Wingert, Mark Miller, Martha Brant, Stuart Taylor Jr., Tamara Lipper, John Barry, Rebecca Sinderbrand, Sarah Childress and Julie Scelfo. It was written by Evan Thomas. ...

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Marriage is one thing. But what happens when partners part? For gay couples splitting up, it's still a legal 'no man's land'.
July 7, 2003... Byline: Debra Rosenberg When Texans Russell Smith and John Anthony traveled to Vermont to join in a civil union in February 2002, they had all the romantic intentions of any couple exchanging "I do's." But like the 50 percent of Americans...

Newsmakers.(editor Bonnie Fuller; model Tyra Banks)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Seth Mnookin, Allison Samuels Bonnie, We Hardly Knew Ye Not even the Us Weekly staff saw it coming. All Thursday morning, editor Bonnie Fuller had been working the magic that had turned the magazine around in 16 months (with...

Perspectives.(quotations about current events)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: New York Times, New York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Post, Stamford (Conn.) Advocate, Associated Press (3), The Washington Post, New York Times ...

The Saudis: Straddling Both Sides.(Saudi Arabia's efforts to stop terrorism and arrest terrorists)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball The capture last week of a Qaeda ringleader in Saudi Arabia is being touted by Bush administration officials as the strongest evidence yet that their effort to prod the Saudis to crack down on...

A Four-Star President?(retired general Wesley Clark considering a run for president)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff Does the already crowded Democratic presidential race have room for another entry? Wesley Clark is seriously teasing the field. "I'm thinking about it," Clark tells NEWSWEEK. He expects to make his decision in a...

Movies: #1? Swell. Wake Me When We're Rich.(when films become profitable for the studio)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Sean M. Smith Though "The Hulk" smashed up $62 million its opening weekend, and looks to gross about $150 million domestically, that still won't be enough green to get Universal out of the red on the film. In fact, by Labor Day,...

The Devil's Download?(ethics of downloading Christian music)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Ordonez Does "Thou shalt not steal" mean "Thou shalt not download"? Just like other computer-savvy listeners, evangelical Christians swipe songs off the Net--and Christian labels have watched their fortunes dwindle. Sales...

Getting The Point.(David Lipsky's writing of 'Absolutely American,' a book about cadets at West Point military academy)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: T. Trent Gegax Five years before "embedded media" hit the lexicon, Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky scored unprecedented access to West Point (and a $450,000 book deal). Through the Army's late-'90s identity crises to its sharp...

Transition: Two Men of Fear, and One of Hope: The lives of three Southerners illuminate the worst and best of politics in Dixie.(deaths of Strom Thurmond, Lester Maddox and Maynard Jackson)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Jon Meacham An exasperated Walker Percy once said that he thought he would leave the country if people kept asking him about his native South. "I'm sick and tired of talking about the South and hearing about the South," the...

Better Bets For Safe Cash: Money market funds used to be the easy call. But with the meager returns these days, they just don't pay. At least there are other options.
July 7, 2003... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn What should you do with cash today? A couple of years ago, happiness was a money-market mutual fund. You earned only 5.89 percent but stocks were down 50 percent or more. You looked like a genius just for keeping...

The New Age of Rave: They chant, they dance, they do downward dog. No drugs or drink allowed. These kids are high on life.
July 7, 2003... Byline: Suzanne Smalley Kim Schmidt glistens with sweat as she dances, trancelike, to the repetitive beat coming from industrial-size speakers in the corner. It's two hours past midnight in a loft in New York City's Chelsea district, and...

The Hormone Decision.(use of hormone replacement therapy)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Karen Springen For women on edge about hormone-replacement therapy, last week brought more alarming headlines: menopause treatment riskier than 1st thought or study ties hormone therapy to bolder, stealthier cancer. Egads! This...

We'll Always Have Antwerp.(shopping in Antwerp, Belgium)(Brief Article)(Directory)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Michelle Jana And you thought Belgium was only good for its waffles. The northern city of Antwerp is also the hub of Europe's bold, avant-garde fashion designers. Shoppers, start your engines: Louis The best place to find...

Hummer XT: Built like a tank.(new bicycle)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Paul Tolme Hummer has made an absolute fortune knocking off the Pentagon. The automaker's newest offering--the XT bike--is based on a model developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The chic ride folds in half...

Ask Tip Sheet.(history of colors used in stop lights)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Melissa Brewster Who decided (and when) that red should signify "stop" and green should mean "go"? --ROBERT BARDONE, ST. LOUIS, MO. In 1868 a revolving lantern with red and green signals controlled the flow of horse-drawn...

A New Twist.(use of screw-tops on expensive wines)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Barrett You're at a nice restaurant, and the sommelier approaches with your $50 bottle of wine. With a flourish, he twists off the screw top? Long associated with paper-bag potables, screw tops are showing up on luxury...

Moving On Over.(how to help children cope with moving)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson Moving's always a pain (specifically, a lower-back pain). But for kids, the emotional strain of leaving friends can be even worse. Before renting the U-Haul, consider these tips from "Moving With Children" author...

Patriot's List.(books about Fourth of July and American history)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten Do your kids think the Fourth of July is only about hot dogs and fireworks? Then it's time for a little history lesson: Dear America Beautifully bound series of kids' fictional diaries. $10.95. Ages 10 and up...

Board Games.(outdoor recreation activities that require a board)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Bored with base-ball? Grab a board! It's the hottest way to cool off this summer. And new spinoff surf styles offer even more options to escape the everyday sports: WAKEBOARDING Water-skiing, but on a board,...

The Net's Cool Tool.(improved search vehicle offered by Google)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2003... Byline: N'Gai Croal Since its launch in 1999, Google has been one of the most indispensable sites on the Web. Now it's about to become an even more indispensable part of your browser. This week the company launched version 2.0 of the...

Big Bow Wow: Reality TV would have to get realer to capture Snoop Dogg's life. For now, old-fashioned TV stardom suits him fine.(rap singer)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Allison Samuels In his trailer behind the MTV studios, Snoop Dogg is winding down after filming an episode of his new comedy show. The Lakers are on the big-screen TV, and his boys--DJ Pooh (who co-wrote the film "Friday"),...

The Knives Are Out: The creator of 'Survivor' is back with a reality show set somewhere even scarier than the Amazon: a restaurant.(reality television series)
July 7, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon Mark Burnett has fallen in love, and the object of his affection is an enormous Italian man in a velour sweat suit. It's opening night at Rocco's, the new Manhattan eatery where the "Survivor" creator is staging his...

Justice Rip Van Winkle: The sour Puritanism of Scalia's tirade has gotten most of the ink, but it's the flagrant politicization of his response that is worthy of censure.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Anna Quindlen Bless the federal judiciary. Sure, its members are not perfect--way too many white guys to be truly representative, for one thing--but in this system we call checks and balances, appointed judges with life tenure seem...

This Is Mr. America: A life of 'the founding father who winks'.('Benjamin Franklin')(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Malcolm Jones Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson tells us at the beginning of his long (but never tedious) new biography, "is the founding father who winks at us." By that, Isaacson explains, he means Franklin is the most...

'Cirque' Dreams Big: The once avant-garde little circus is now more corporate giant than street art. Will more shows and a risque new look mean more profits--or overexposure?
July 14, 2003... Byline: Steve Friess A sandpaper-throated drag queen steps gingerly through the metal bars into a mammoth steel cage. She raises her arms and thunders, "Welcome to Sex Station 69, a stress-release center for the curious!" Around her,...

Just Saying No to Junk: Kraft announces plans to slim down its snack foods.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Peg Tyre It's a good bet that Velveeta will never be sold in health stores, but Kraft, the country's largest food manufacturer, announced last week that it's taking some of the junk out of junk food. Citing rising rates of obesity,...

Conventional Wisdom: WOMAN OF THE YEAR EDITION.
July 14, 2003... Two classy, style-setting entertainment legends left us last week: Katharine Hepburn and Buddy Hackett. Now there's a sitcom made for heaven. C.W. Bush - With inflammatory "bring 'em on" dare to Iraqi guerrillas,...

Mail Call: To Have and to Hold, Till Sex Do Us Part.(Letter to the Editor)
July 14, 2003... Many readers could relate to our June 30 cover story on diminished marital romance, and talked about the toll increased demands of work and family are taking on sexual intimacy. One woman wrote that she showed the cover to her husband...

Hope for Africa: On the troubled continent, Bush will stump for his $15 billion AIDS relief plan. With medicine and treatment now cheaper and more accessible than ever, 30 million people may stand a chance.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley By the grim standards of sub-Saharan Africa, 18-year-old Henry Kiiaka is not doing too badly. He attended high school near Kampala, Uganda, and he now earns $30 a month helping a farmer keep his books. Sporting a...

Wars Without End: Man-made catastrophies-in Congo, Liberia and other war zones-also cry out for action. A glimpse in the abyss.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Tom Masland Joseph, a 28-year-old communications student in Denmark, hadn't heard from his father in eight years. Then came a letter, smuggled out of the forests of eastern Congo in April. "We recently learned that you are still...

Flowers of Destruction: Poverty, greed and a 'silent jihad' revive Afghan opium farms.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Ron Moreau And Sami Yousafzai Opium has been a lifesaver for Ghulam Shah. The 35-year-old Afghan farmer could barely feed his family on the few hundred dollars a year he earned growing wheat. But last year, liberated at last from...

The Sweetest Revenge: Talk of a 'Jewish renaissance' where Hitler once ruled.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Stefan Theil When Shlomo Afanasev and his parents set out to make a new life for themselves late last year, they had choices. The country where they lived--Uzbekistan--was an economic basket case, and its 2,000-year-old Jewish...

Iraq Policy Is Broken. Fix It. The administration's problem is that calling on NATO means bringing France and Germany back into the fold. My suggestion: get over it.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria We're utterly surprised," a senior U.N. diplomat told me. "We thought that after the war, the United States would try to dump Iraq on the world's lap and the rest of the world would object, saying, 'This is your...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker Remember the scene in "Sleeper" when a researcher from the future observes that everything Woody Allen thought was unhealthy is actually good for him? I was reminded of that fantasy when our health team suggested a...

Orlando Bloom: The Budding of a Heartthrob.(Biography)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Kate Stroup Deep in the magic kingdom, things are about to get ugly. I'm walking with Orlando Bloom down a 1,050-foot red carpet at the Disneyland premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean," between him and a hysterical horde of his...

And a Bottle Of Eyeliner.('Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl')(Movie Review)
July 14, 2003... Byline: David Ansen Jack Sparrow is one very strange pirate, and thank heaven for that. As Johnny Depp plays him, with Cockney accent, kohl-blackened eyes and a prancing brio that wouldn't be out of place in a Christopher Street parade,...

A Very Independent Woman: Patrician heartbreaker KATHARINE HEPBURN, 96, challenged our assumptions.(Obituary)
July 14, 2003... Byline: David Ansen Amid the heartfelt tributes, the proclamations of her dignity and independence, and her importance as a role model for women, we are in danger of forgetting how wonderfully funny Katharine Hepburn was. Before she...

Ms. Witherspoon Goes to the Dogs.(Movie Review)
July 14, 2003... Byline: David Ansen Reese Witherspoon had an ardent, if cultish, fan club before "Legally Blonde," the sleeper hit of summer '01. But after her turn as Elle Woods, Harvard Law School's most fashion-obsessed graduate, Witherspoon became...

Those Hand Gestures Didn't Mean 'Hello': It took me far too long to admit I was a danger on the road. How many more like me are still driving?(Column)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Ruth G. Nedbor If cars are inspected periodically to be proved roadworthy, why aren't drivers? About two months ago I watched my car wag its bumper at me as it was dragged away by a tow truck, and I knew I was waving goodbye to my...

The General Nobody Knows: The charismatic chief of Northern Command takes charge of Homeland troops.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Michael Hirsh It's a blistering day on the plains of Colorado, and Gen. Ed Eberhart strides into his brand-new "situational awareness center" at Northern Command. Eberhart may be the most powerful man in America nobody has really...

A Question of Foul Play Off the Court.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Ellise Pierce and Stephanie Franks At 6 feet 10 inches and 230 pounds, Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy wasn't an easy guy to miss. He liked loud music, kept pit bulls as pets and had a history of storming off the...

A Wedge Is Born: Gay Marriage and 2004: For both parties, a tricky dance on an emotional issue.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman and Debra Rosenberg The log cabin republicans, a gay and lesbian group, thought they had a friend in Sen. Bill Frist. As chairman of the GOP's Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2002, the Tennessean rushed from the...

The Terminator's Next Big Act: Californians threaten to recall their governor. Here comes Arnold.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Karen Breslau Charlotte Christiana is a true-blue California Republican. She is against abortion, gun control and "environmental wackos." She wants tighter immigration laws--and a governor who "will get in there and cut some of...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Allison Samuels, Andrew Phillips Knight's Bad Day Suge Knight was arrested--again--last week, and may return to jail for violating the terms of his parole. The man who put the likes of Snoop Dogg on the hip-hop map allegedly...

Perspectives.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom, Left To Right: Reuters, The Washington Post, New York Post, Palm Beach Post, New York Post (2), Reuters, The Sun (London), New York Post, Associated Press, Daily News "Bring them on." President...

Lying in Wait for Dean.(Howard Dean)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman You'd think that Howard Dean's rivals would start attacking him--big time--now that his Internet-based fund-raising prowess has elevated him to what amounts to front-runner status in the Democratic presidential race....

World Without 'White'.(whiteness studies)(Interview)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Peter Bailey Dr. Noel Ignatiev, a historian and professor at Massachusetts College of Art, has been called one of the 10 most dangerous minds in America--all because of his theories on race. Ignatiev's book, "How the Irish Became...

An A+ for The Elderly?(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Eleanor Clift President George W. Bush hopes to sign prescription-drug benefits for seniors into law on July 30, the anniversary of the 1965 creation of Medicare under LBJ. By spearheading the biggest expansion of Medicare in...

Scientists: Mass Exodus?(Los Alamos's weapons designers threatening to leave)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: John Barry Just as the administration approved the first efforts in a decade to develop new nuclear weapons--earth-penetrating nukes to entomb underground WMD facilities--it's triggered a potential exodus of America's top...

Education: Summa Cum Laude in Grand Theft Auto?(video games industry)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Jason McLure Once the domain of dropouts who couldn't stay away from the computer long enough to attend class, the videogame industry is fast developing its own branch of academia. Nearly 200 colleges worldwide now offer coursework...

He Says and She Says.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson It's not called "the battle of the sexes" for nothing. And pollsters, like everyone else, have tried to get to the bottom of the gender wars. The findings? Men and women think differently. Big surprise. Some of...

All in One Day's Rest.(siesta)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Suzanne Smalley In sun-drenched southern Europe, there's nothing quite so beloved as an afternoon doze. But the tradition has faded recently, in part because of the desire to harmonize working hours within the EU. One group of...

Suddenly, 'Family Guy'.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon For ten years, the late-night TV battle has raged between Jay Leno and David Letterman, but at the moment, both of them are getting whipped by a toy-factory worker from Rhode Island named Peter Griffin. (You didn't...

An Itch For Kitsch.(bingo halls)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Meredith Sadin From the nursing home to... the nightclub? Bingo is being co-opted by a younger generation, and a racier version has popped up at bars from New York to Los Angeles, complete with drag queens and spankings for calling...

Transition.(Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.)(Brief Article)(Obituary)(Biography)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Jon Meacham The new mayor wanted the COLORED and WHITE signs to come down--immediately. It was 1962, the beginning, really, of the worst of the violence in the South over civil rights, but in Atlanta a white businessman, incoming...

The Tax on Free Speech: Companies have to be able to speak out openly on major public issues without fearing that they might be sued for false advertising.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson To anyone concerned about free speech, the failure of the Supreme Court to rule on a case brought by Nike Inc. is more than disappointing. It's a disaster. Just about the last people you'd want to put in charge...

You Want Statins With That? It's summertime and the eating is easy. As you throw more red meat on the grill, you know that little pill will keep your cholesterol down. But could it also stop Alzheimer's?
July 14, 2003... Byline: David Noonan Jim Moviel never met an egg roll he didn't like. His list of favorite foods also includes garlic chicken wings smothered in bluecheese dressing, and mashed potatoes made with real butter and whole milk. Indeed, the...

Challenging 'Extreme' Shyness: Experts seek causes and cures for 'social anxiety'.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Claudia Kalb It starts out just fine. You get invited to a party. You plan what you're going to wear, dream about whom you might meet. Then the big night arrives and, wham, the excitement sputters into nervousness. You stand around...

These Girls Got Game: Women reach the final b-ball frontier: the playground.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Vanessa Juarez The other players on the sun-drenched court at Benny Babcock Park have six to 10 inches on Gretel Martinez. Some of them must be almost double her weight, 110 pounds soaking wet, which she is right now in the...

Test Yourself: What do you know about cholesterol?
July 14, 2003... Byline: Adapted from the National Cholesterol Education Program. For more information, see nhlbi.nih.gov/chd. THE RIGHT STUFF TRUE or FALSE? 1. The body needs cholesterol. 2. The best way to reduce cholesterol is to limit...

Trailer Chic: Go Vintage.
July 14, 2003... Byline: Paul Tolme Mike Conner used to be a hard-core tent camper. As a kid, he pitched camp around Arkansas; in college, he backpacked through the Colorado Rockies and portaged around northern Minnesota. But since he met his wife, Noel,...

The Getaway: When In Rome.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Michelle Jana With acres of ancient ruins, Rome is an open-air museum that draws in coachloads of tourists. Want to avoid the crowds? Insider advice on the Eternal City: SLEEP: In the 19th century, the Hotel de Russie was the...

Home: Smell The Roses.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Maria Beaudoin Can't keep a Chia Pet alive? Even you can grow hearty, fragrant rosebushes with these tips from London's Royal Horticultural Society. 1 Feeding: Roses should be fed and mulched in the spring. But for optimal...

Ask Tip Sheet.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Maria Beaudoin Where do clothes finally wind up after all the final sales and discount stores? -MARI THORNTON, HILTON HEAD, S.C. Well, there's no clothes heaven for last season's turtlenecks and scarves. Many big stores...

Paycheck Patrol.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern Has your paycheck put on a few extra dollars? It should have, now that Bush's tax cut has kicked in and the IRS has told employers to make corresponding cuts in everyone's weekly withholding. It's bad enough if you...

Cool For Schools.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Brian Braiker There's something funky about No Mayo Records, and it ain't just the music. In five years, the label's released only three albums--too few considering they contain some of the most uplifting hip-hop you've never heard...

Share The Power.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
July 14, 2003... Byline: N'Gai Croal Just because you're a road warrior doesn't mean your briefcase should be stuffed with a half-dozen transformers and chargers. That's why we're fans of Mobility Electronics' iGo Juice (mobilityelectronics.com), a...

Race And Anorexia.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Claudia Kalb Eating disorders are generally thought of as a plague of affluent white girls, but minorities aren't immune. In a study of just over 2,000 women (average age: 21) published in The American Journal of Psychiatry last...

Love Your Luggage.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... Byline: Kate Stroup Your laptop--don't leave home without it. But who wants a boring black carrying case as a signature accessory? Attractive laptop cases are nearly impossible to find. But Tip Sheet's intrepid shoppers managed to track...